Re: Latest Fedora 7 NM can't disable wireless

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 16:51 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 20:51 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 6/26/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> >         On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:45 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >         > I updated to NetworkManager-0.6.5-6.fc7 last night.  Now,
> >         when I
> >         > right-click on the nm-applet icon, the Enable Wireless
> >         checkbox is
> >         > greyed out and I can't set or unset the check mark. 
> >         >
> >         > This was not the case with the previous version.
> >         
> >         Is your wireless rfkilled?  NM will gray out the
> >         enable/disable wireless
> >         checkbox if it thinks that the hardware has killed the
> >         radio.  Can you
> >         do a dump of 'lshal' and grab the section for killswitch, if
> >         any?
> > 
> > its the same here it seems if the rfkill is not supported in hal  nm
> > greyes this option out. 
> 
> Eek, that's not right.

dragoran, Matthew, can you try the following SRPM and see if it works in
both cases (a) where there is no killswitch detected by HAL, and (b)
where there _is_ a killswitch detected by HAL?

http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-0.6.5-6.0.1.fc7.src.rpm

As root, rpm -Uhv that rpm.  cd into /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, then run:

rpmbuild -ba --target i386 NetworkManager.spec

(replace i386 with x86_64 if that's what you have)

If you have missing build dependencies, install those with yum.  The
resulting RPM will be in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386, install the
NetworkManager one and see if it fixes the issue.  Let me know if you've
got questions.

The small fix would be that if you don't have killswitches, mark the
hardware RF as enabled.

Thanks,
Dan